Supermassive black holes are theorized to get so big through a chain of mergers involving smaller black holes and by feasting on copious amounts of gas and dust. The problem is that this process is ...
A cross the sky, more than 100 stellar-mass black holes are hidden within a large cluster of stars. The star cluster is named Palomar 5, and it stretches out over 30,000 light-years. It is located ...